From Book to Screen: “The Giver”
The Giver is a wildly read and sometimes controversial book. How does the film compare?
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From Book to Screen: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
How does the film version of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy stack against its source material? Switch on your Infinite Improbabilty Drive to find out!
From Book to Screen: “The Name of the Rose”
A DA VINCI CODE for geniuses or just weird old Italian men, Umberto Eco’s THE NAME OF THE ROSE was an unlikely source for one of film’s great medieval period pieces. Sean Connery stars and Christian Slater goes full-frontal.
Reel Rumbles: “Jurassic Park” vs. “Schindler’s List”
Today is Steven Spielberg’s 67th birthday, and this year marks the twentieth anniversary of two of the most important films of their era: Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List — one the box office champ...
Flickchart’s Take On Robert Elder’s “Life Changing Films” & “Films You’ve Never Seen”
Author and journalist Robert K. Elder has written two books featuring interviews with film directors: “The Film that Changed My Life“, and his newly released “The Best Film You’ve Never Seen“. In the former,...
From Book To Screen: The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett’s ground-breaking 1930 detective novel “The Maltese Falcon” is often credited as being the seminal novel in the hard-boiled detective genre. In addition to being a major influence on pulp detective literature, it...
From Book to Screen: “The Tailor of Panama”
“Le Carre’s Panama – the young country of 2.5 million souls which, on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal – is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs,...
From Book to Screen: Bret Easton Ellis
A common thread that runs through all of Bret Easton Ellis’ books is the exploration of hollow persons. People who are generally well-off financially yet dead on the inside, so numb to the world...
From Book to Screen: “Casino Royale”
“THE SCENT and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling – a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension –...
From Book to Screen: Nick Hornby’s “High Fidelity” and “About a Boy”
Photo by Aaron Lynett/National Post There is perhaps no one better at writing about the contemporary “average Joe” than the English born Nick Hornby. This could very well be one of the reasons that...
